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Fighting poverty with facts : community-based monitoring systems /

For more than two decades, governments and development agencies around the world have focused on reducing poverty. There have been advances, but progress has been uneven and nearly a quarter of the world's population still suffers from extreme "income poverty." Income poverty, however...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Reyes, Celia
Collectivité auteur: International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Autres auteurs: Due, Evan
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ottawa : International Development Research Centre, 2009.
Collection:In focus (International Development Research Centre (Canada))
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:For more than two decades, governments and development agencies around the world have focused on reducing poverty. There have been advances, but progress has been uneven and nearly a quarter of the world's population still suffers from extreme "income poverty." Income poverty, however, is only part of the picture. A multi-faceted account of poverty and human welfare incorporates elements that go beyond income to capture the characteristics of poverty as experienced by the poor themselves. This book presents the Community-Based Monitoring System (CBMS). CBMS recognizes that the poor must be inv
Description:Available also on the Internet.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (xviii, 104 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:1552504352
9781552504352
1552504328
9781552504321